Boston-Area Adjuncts Launch Citywide Campaign to Form a Union with SEIU
Adjuncts from over 20 campuses will join a symposium about how to raise standards for their profession and win a voice in the future of higher education
WHAT: A symposium to discuss the crisis in higher education marked by the trend toward a marginalized contingent faculty workforce. Adjuncts will discuss how forming a union can help adjuncts improve standards for their profession and gain a voice in the future of higher education.
WHO: Contingent faculty from over 20 campuses across the Boston-area
Maria Maisto, President of the New Faculty Majority
Gary Rhoades, Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education
Kelly Goss, Office of Attorney General Martha Coakley
WHEN: Saturday, April 13, 2013 from noon-1:30pm
WHERE: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125
WHY: At most colleges and universities, adjuncts are now a majority of all teaching faculty and face low pay, and no benefits, job security, or institutional support for research and scholarship. These trends endanger the profession and the quality of education for students.
Adjuncts on campuses across the Boston-area are coming together in Adjunct Action, a project of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), to do something about this bybuilding a market-wide movement to raise standards for faculty and students alike. This symposium is their kick-off event.
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Adjunct Action is a project of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s largest and fastest growing union and home to over 15,000 unionized adjuncts who have won improvements in pay, job security, evaluation processes, and access to retirement benefits.
